Bottles for Sale (101 - )

As you know, we discovered hundreds of bottles while excavating the original outhouse located on our property. Rather than create hundreds of blog entries for each bottle, we decided to create a separate page in which to feature these great finds. While we appreciate the history and uniqueness of our find, we do not necessarily want to keep them all. If anyone is interested in purchasing one of the bottles we describe, feel free to let us know. We are more than happy to negotiate. If you want to know the process we are using to clean up these beautiful treasures, see our Bottle Cleaning Process page. Due to the large quantity of bottles, we have decided to create a new page for each group of 100 bottles found and presented.
Each bottle is numbered, photographed, and its history described below. While we know that we have bottles that are identical in shape, manufacturer, or company, we are opting to list them individually as their final cleanliness and condition may vary. If you are going to contact us about purchasing a bottle, please use the bottle reference number that we have assigned to ensure that there is no confusion. Thanks!

Bottle No.	Description	Photograph	Status
101	While this bottle has no manufacturer's mark on it, we did find it in the 1920 catalogue published by the Illinois Glass Company, as mold CH 15. We believe it to be a 3 ounce perfume bottle, which measures 5.75" tall. It has rather distinctive design features that made it easily comparable. (03/29/12)		Available
102	This bottle is one of my favorites due to its petite size of 2.25" tall and the very tiny orange rubber stopper that is stuck in the bottom (despite our best efforts to retrieve it). There are no markings or indicators for who manufactured this bottle or for what purposes. It is our best guess that it is a round packer bottle, which is still manufactured today. (03/29/12)		Available
103	This bottle is another one of my favorites due to its petite size of 2.25" tall. There are no markings or indicators for who manufactured this bottle or for what purposes. It is our best guess that it is a round packer bottle, which is still manufactured today. (03/29/12)		Available
104	Machine made bottles were transitioned from hand blown bottles and this can be seen within our collection. Earlier we featured several cork style homeopathic vials. This vial is a machine made screw cap vial, measuring 2.5" and manufactured after 1926. (03/29/12)		Available
105	We have discovered that those jars that most closely resemble today's modern versions are sometimes the most difficult to identify, even with the manufacturer's mark. For example, this particular jar was manufactured by the Hazel-Atlas Glass Company, most likely in the Kearns plant after 1926, based on a similar jar in the Kearns catalogue (click here to read about the history of Kearns). It measures 4" high and looks like it could be an 8 ounce jar. Based on the above and our research, we believe that it may have been a mayonnaise jar although this is not able to be confirmed. (03/29/12)		Available
106	We have discovered that those jars that most closely resemble today's modern versions are sometimes the most difficult to identify, even with the manufacturer's mark. For example, this particular jar was manufactured by the Owens Illinois Glass Company, most likely in 1940. It measures 4.5" high and looks like it could be a 10 ounce jar. Based on the above and our research, we believe that it is a packer jar. These jars were massed produced for a variety of commercial companies and so its actually contents are unknown. (03/29/12)		Available
107	This bottle was manufactured by the Owens Illinois Glass Company and is the model "Illinois" previously known as "Lyric" prior to the merger of Illinois Glass with Owens. This clear bottle was manufactured in 1939 for pharmaceutical purposes. This bottle is an 8 ounce bottle as indicated by the encircled number 8 at the base of the neck. Measurements are indicated on both sides. (03/29/12)		Available
108	This is a larger clear glass bottle measuring 8.5" tall and also features the lettering of The JR Watkins Co., but in block lettering opposed to the scripted version on the other bottles. This bottle was manufactured by the Illinois Glass Company, most likely in 1939. (03/29/12)		Available
109	One of the fascinating aspects of researching all of these bottles is the amount of American history that you can learn. Take this aquamarine bottle for example. It was manufactured for the Charles E. Hines Co. According to the bottle, it contained Hires Household Extract for Home Use out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Research leads us to believe that this bottle once contained the ingredients necessary to make root beer at home. (check out the company history here). The bottle is square, measuring 4.5" tall and each side measuring 1.5". (03/29/12)		Available